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House in Minohshinmachi

Yasuyuki Kitamura

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House
6.14
6.79
6.14
7.07
6.54
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann
Anne-Rachel Schiffmann Director of Interior Architecture at Snøhetta
6.5
7.5
7
6
6.75
Nicolas Delefosse
Nicolas Delefosse Founder and Creative Director at NDDO
6
6
6
5
5.75
Dennis Vlietinck
Dennis Vlietinck Head of Design at Wink
5.5
6
5
5
5.38
Giovanni Zaccariello
Giovanni Zaccariello SVP Global Visual Experience  at Coach
6
7
7
6
6.5
Gilbert Khalil
Gilbert Khalil Director of Design and Technical Services at Sunset Hospitality Group
6
7
6
5
6
Lucy Bagshaw
Lucy Bagshaw Project Director at Tp Bennett
5.5
7
6.5
5
6
Jocelyne Sacre
Jocelyne Sacre Design Strategist at Consultant
6
6
6
5
5.75
Farid Ziani
Farid Ziani Partner Architect Designer at KTX archiLAB
5
4.5
5
5
4.88
Asif Din
Asif Din Sustainability Director at Perkins&Will
6
7
6
5
6
Cathy Figueiredo
Cathy Figueiredo Cofounder at Wanna
5
7
5
5
5.5
Deepak Jawahar
Deepak Jawahar Cofounder at The Architecture Story
6
6
6
5
5.75
Liqun Lin
Liqun Lin Executive Director at Xiamen Wenqu Decoration Design
6
6.5
6
5
5.88
Sontaya Bluangtook
Sontaya Bluangtook Associate Design Director at UNStudio
5
6
5
5
5.25
Lisa Adams
Lisa Adams Director of CitizenHKS & Sustainable Design Leader at HKS
5.5
5.5
6
5
5.5
Baoyu Tian
Baoyu Tian General Manager at Foshan Shengtianjia Lighting Equipment
6
6
6
5
5.75
Klein Dai
Klein Dai CEO at Algebraist Brand Management
6
5
6
5
5.5
Bangsheng Yang
Bangsheng Yang Founder at Yang & Associates Group
5.25
7
6
5.5
5.94
Woody Yao
Woody Yao Director at Zaha Hadid Design
5
6.5
5
5
5.38
Dirk Osinga
Dirk Osinga Founder at STUDIOSINGA
3
3
3
3
3
Client
Shuhei Kimura
Floor area
81.15 ㎡
Completion
2020
Structural Engineering
Photographer
Masashige Akeda
Akihiro Oku
Landscape
Tanpan studio

A house for a young couple, located in the northernmost new town of Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture. Even though the area around the planned site is blessed with a natural environment, there were many houses that were unchanged from the center of the city. The client's couple sought a simple home where they could feel the rich natural environment in their daily lives in such a land. It faces the road on the south side of the site, residential land on the east and west sides, and the management road of the Satoyama Farm, which was established as a buffer zone for the sediment disaster warning zone on the north side. The green of Mt. Aogai, the northernmost point of Minoh, spreads out in the back. In such an environment, the boundary between the building and nature was obscured, and the aim was to create a quiet home that responds to the surrounding natural environment. The building was a one-story building with a loose gabled roof whose volume was reduced so that it could be gently continuous with the surrounding landscape. Since the construction budget was extremely limited, the structural form was the conventional wooden construction method, all columns were 105 mm square, and all of them could be constructed with ordinary metal. in the longitudinal direction, and a single inside and outside climbing beam and Highly earthquake-resistant performance is ensured by using a simple left-right symmetrical frame structure with columns arranged at intervals of 1 pitch rafters with narrowed tips are used to reduce the construction period. We are trying to shorten it. Paired openings, light roofs and deep eaves expand the interior space, large toplights allow trees and the blue sky to penetrate, and nested rooms create an intermediate area that makes the interior and exterior of the building more vague. There is. The two pillars that were installed in the center of the large space as a building member with a small cross section gave the space a calming effect like a standing tree in the forest. I think that it was not a method of cutting out nature as a landscape in a closed space, but rather a quiet residence as if there were daily life in the natural environment.